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‘Tin Van’ in pre-Brexit dash to new Downpatrick home
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Downpatrick & County Down Railway completed the move of its latest rolling stock over uncertainties over Brexit.
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No. 34092 City of Wells set and ready for services
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North Yorkshire Moors Railway has announced No. 34092 City of Wells has arrived for its opening event.
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Tornado returns to action with Scottish adventures
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There was disappointment later in the day when Class 55 No. D9009 Alycidon failed on the return leg.
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‘New’ world’s oldest operational steam loco
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TWO iconic UK-built Indian steam locomotives have returned to steam in recent years.
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Mayflower takes first trip after three years
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The steam locomotive Mayflower returned to the South with Rail Company Steam Dreams to make its first passenger-carrying trip, in three years.
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Prince of Wales to sing the Blues
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BRITAIN’S most powerful steam locomotive to be turned out in British Railways’ Express Passenger Blue livery.
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What’s in the Shops: Worth their salt – Dapol fleet wagons
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Dapol has released two brilliant models of private-owner salt wagons on its new O-gauge 9ft RCH underframe. Salt from the Cheshire and Staffordshire area was an important source of traffic for the railways in the first half of the 20th century, when numerous small operations and family-owned concerns such as Stubbs and Company operated small…
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What’s in the Shops: Dapol’s N-gauge ‘Pacer’ emerges at last
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Nigel Burkin brings this review.
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What’s in the Shops: Eight beats to the bar!
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Nigel Burkin reviews a completely new OO-gauge model of the Southern Railway’s four-cylinder ‘Lord Nelson’ express passenger 4-6-0s that has now arrived in the shops from Hornby Reputed to be a difficult class of locomotive to fire, the Southern Railway’s Maunsell-designed ‘Lord Nelson’ (LN) 4-6-0s were constructed to haul the heavier cross-Channel passenger trains between…
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Modelling from the female perspective
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As one of the minority lady railway modellers in our hobby, I found your March editorial most enlightening, particularly your first two paragraphs in which you described the broad spectrum of interest among us. Within our own club – West Sussex N Gauge RMC – we have exactly the spread of modellers you described. While…
